Communication, consensus and order. Who wants to speak first?

Nicolas Houy and Lucie Ménager ()
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Lucie Ménager: EUREQua, http://eurequa.univ-paris1.fr

Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)

Abstract: Parikh and Krasucki [1990] showed that if rational agents communicate the value of a function f according to a protocol upon which they have agreed beforehand, they will eventually reach a consensus about the value of f, provided a fairness condition on the protocol and a convexity condition on the function f. In this article, we address the issue of how agents agree on a communication protocol in the case where they communicate in order to learn information. We show that if it is common knowledge among a group of agents that some of them disagree about two protocols, then the consensus value of f must be the same according to the two protocols

Keywords: Common knowledge; consensus; communication protocol (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2005-02, Revised 2006-01
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Journal Article: Communication, consensus and order. Who wants to speak first? (2008)
Working Paper: Communication, consensus and order. Who wants to speak first? (2008)
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